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Lately I have been doing a lot of work using Microsoft’s Hadoop offering, HDInsight. I suspect a lot of people who read my blog are unfamiliar with what Hadoop actually is so I thought I’d recount a recent test I did that exhibits the scale-out nature of processing data on Hadoop.
The test used a mapreduce job (written in Java) to process an ...

I’ve been doing alot of work with hadoop recently, specifically Microsoft’s hadoop distribution, HDInsight. Microsoft have an HDInsight Emulator available that makes it possible for one to run HDInsight on their Windows workstation and on the 29th August 2014 they released a new version of the Emulator that includes the recently released HBase ...

I’ve been very quiet on the blogging front of late. There are a few reasons for that but one of the main ones is that I’ve spent the past three months on a new gig immersing myself in Hadoop, primarily in Microsoft’s Hadoop offering called HDInsight. I’ve got a tonne of learnings that I want to share at some point but in this blog post I’ll start ...

A post on Microsoft Press Blog has announced the publication of the eBook Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight.
If you want to know what Big Data really means and how you can use it to your advantage in your company or organization, don't miss this eBook!
Enjoy the book!

If you keep an eye on the tech industry you cannot have failed to notice that an Open Source technology called Hadoop is getting lots of coverage these days. You’ll be able to find lots of descriptions around the web about what Hadoop actually is so I won’t try and come up with one myself other than to say its a technology for storing and querying ...